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Definition: Lifestyle |
LifestyleNoun1. A manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes lifetime n : the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death); "the battery had a short life"; "he. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A lifestyle is the way a person (or a group) lives.Having a specific "lifestyle" implies a conscious or unconscious choice between that group of characteristics and some other group of characteristics.
Lifestyles provide targeting for advertisers and marketers as they endeavor to match aspirations with products.
In sociology, a lifestyle may come pre-packaged with a matching appropriate worldview.
The word "lifestyle" apparently first appeared in 1939. (Previous generations may not have needed the concept.)
See also:
- Life
- The meaning of life
- Friend and Friendship
- List of (alternative) lifestyles
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lifestyle."
Synonyms: LifestyleSynonyms: life style (n), life-style (n), modus vivendi (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lifestyle |
| English words defined with "lifestyle": Brady, Byron ♦ Diamond Jim, Diamond Jim Brady ♦ flower child ♦ George Gordon Byron ♦ hippie, hippy, hipster ♦ James Buchanan Brady ♦ Lord Byron ♦ Sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lifestyle": counselor, orientation and mobility, CRAFT DEMONSTRATOR ♦ emo ♦ instructor of blind ♦ Live simply ♦ ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY THERAPIST FOR THE BLIND, orientation therapist for blind, orientor ♦ Risk Factors ♦ Sexual Habits ♦ therapist for blin. (references) |
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Screenplays | Really? Well, it's an alternative lifestyle. (Manhattan Murder Mystery; writing credit: Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman. Starring Woody Allen as Larry Lipton, Diane Keaton as Carol Lipton, Alan Alda as Ted, and Anjelica Huston as Marcia Fox.) I got a swanky lifestyle. I'm used to the best (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Boy, I envy Sammy and his carefree lifestyle. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) Children would only get in the way of our erotic lifestyle! (Polyester; writing credit: John Waters) I mean, I glued mine on. For you it's an actual lifestyle choice (3000 Miles to Graceland; writing credit: Richard Recco; Demian Lichtenstein) | |
Movie/TV Titles | American Lifestyle (1972) The Lifestyle (1999) Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle (1995) A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle (1994) | |
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Pictured is a Japanese-American family. There is a mother, father and a pre-school boy. They are seated in an outdoor restaurant and are eating hamburgers and drinking milk. Because Japanese-Americans tend to marry among themselves, factors other than genetic must be examined for cancer incidence. Diet and other lifestyle variations are being studied. Japanese who emigrate to California and change their lifestyles, seem to have an increased incidence of colon cancer. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | Shown are groups of people biking. The setting is summer and in the country. This is meant to indicate that one's lifestyle and environment can influence one's health status. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | ||
Shown is an outdoor summer scene in a treed area with a lake visible. Also seen are two runners in shorts. This is the cover photograph to the "Decade of Discovery" section entitled, "Lifestyle, Environment and Cancer". Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | |||
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | "I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle," he muttered to himself. |
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Health | About changes in your lifestyle. (references) | |
Many patients can control CHD with lifestyle changes and medication. (references) | ||
It often requires a great deal of adjustment in outlook and lifestyle. (references) | ||
Business | This European lifestyle is distinctively different from that of the typical American. (references) | |
The trend toward the so-called natural lifestyle also bodes well for the nutritional supplements industry. (references) | ||
There is a marked renewed trend in Germany toward the recognition and appreciation of physical fitness as part of a healthy lifestyle. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Iran | The main participants in the unrest were young persons, who appeared to use the situation to show their general displeasure with the restrictive lifestyle imposed on them by the Government. (references) |
Uzbekistan | The Government does not allow the general distribution of foreign newspapers and other publications; however, two or three Russian newspapers and a variety of Russian tabloids and lifestyle publications are available. (references) | |
Belgium | Some courts in the Flanders region continued to stipulate, in the context of child custody proceedings and as a condition of granting visitation rights, that a noncustodial parent who is a member of Jehovah's Witnesses may not expose his or her children to the teachings or lifestyle of that religious group during visits. (references) | |
Economic History | Argentina | U.S. lifestyle and consumption habits are increasingly influential. (references) |
Italy | The Italian youth market is especially interested in lifestyle foods such as American beer and salted corn chips. (references) | |
Brazil | U.S. sporting goods products enjoy a good level of acceptance because Brazilians tend to emulate the American lifestyle. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | However, the high security wing of La Picota prison in Bogota has undergone renovations that have altered considerably this comfortable lifestyle. (references) |
Indigenous People | Finland | Sami receive subsidies to enable them to continue their traditional lifestyle, which revolves around reindeer herding. (references) |
Minorities | Tanzania | These ethnic groups continued to seek compensation for past government discrimination seeking to make them adopt a more modern lifestyle and to restrict their access to pastoral lands that were turned into large government wheat farms. (references) |
Travel | Luxembourg | The country is blessed with an intense and varied cultural life, and is highly regarded for its acceptance of foreign goods and persons and its overall lifestyle and family-oriented values system. (references) |
Women | Czech Republic | However, employers often openly used such factors as age, sex, and lifestyle in their employment solicitations and advertising. (references) |
Tanzania | While provisions of the law provide for certain inheritance and property rights for women, the application of customary, Islamic, or statutory law depends on the lifestyle and stated intentions of the male head of household. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Marc Klaas | You know, downloading child pornography onto your computer is not only an abhorrent lifestyle, but it's also a felony in California. |
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George Bush | 1989-1993 | Welfare was never meant to be a lifestyle. |
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| "Lifestyle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.06% of the time. "Lifestyle" is used about 1,083 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.06% | 1,062 | 7,058 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.94% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,083 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| South Africa | First Lifestyle Holdings Limited | USA | Lifestyle Furnishings International Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "lifestyle": get used to a different lifestyle ♦ Living Foods Lifestyle. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "lifestyle": lifestyle-building, lifestyle-oriented. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "lifestyle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | "活方式 (life-style). (various references) | |
Dutch | lifestyle-geneesmiddel (lifestyle drug), met een levenswijze verbonden ziekte (lifestyle disease), aan de leefwijze gebonden ziekte (lifestyle disease). (various references) | |
French | maladie liée au mode de vie (lifestyle disease), médicament de bien-être (lifestyle drug). (various references) | |
German | lebensstil (fashion, modus vivendi, way of life). (various references) | |
Greek | τρόπος ζωής (way of life). (various references) | |
Hungarian | életstílus. (various references) | |
Italian | stile di vita (life style). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "活様式 (one's lifestyle), コカの木 (coca tree, Coca-Cola, cocaine, cockpit, cocoa, COCOM, COCOM list, Coordinating Committee for Export to Communist Area, coquette, coquetterie, coquettish, cuckoo, obsessively trend-conscious teen-age girls who may offer themselves for enjou kousai with older men in order to finance their lifestyle, shell). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せいかつようしき (one's lifestyle), コギャル (obsessively trend-conscious teen-age girls who may offer themselves for enjou kousai with older men in order to finance their lifestyle). (various references) | |
Korean | 생활양식 (life-style). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ifestylelay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | modo de vida (career, living), estilo de vida (life style). (various references) | |
Russian | образ жизни (life, living, mode of life, pattern of life, way of life, way of living). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | način života (life style, way of life). (various references) | |
Spanish | estilo de vida (way of life). (various references) | |
Thai | วิถีทางการ"ำเนินชีวิต. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спосіб життя (goings on, living, ongoing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lifestyle": lifestyles. (additional references) | |
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"Lifestyle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Iifestyle, Lenfesty, lifestule, lifesylte. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lifestyle" (pronounced lī"fstī'l) |
| 4 | -s t ī' l | freestyle, hairstyle, textile, peristyle, turnstile. |
| 3 | -t ī' l | gentile, mercantile, percentile. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-l-l-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: stellify. | |
-2 letters: fellest, fellies, felsite, fillets, fleetly, lefties, liefest, tellies. | |
-3 letters: elites, feisty, feyest, filets, filles, fillet, fleets, fliest, flites, flytes, illest, itself, liefly, listee, listel, sleety, steely, stifle, stilly, tellys. | |
-4 letters: elite, feels, feist, fells, felly, felts, fetes, files, filet, fille, fills, filly, fitly, flees, fleet, fleys, flies, flite, flits, flyte, islet, istle. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-l-l-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: lifestyles. | |
+3 letters: despitefully. | |
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